Nora Roberts Quotes

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

Not everyone who loves music can play the tune.Estelle

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

Love runs the engine

Knowing isn't always believing.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time.

People in hell want snowcones.

[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....

Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

You walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you're enough of a challenge. I'm not trying to be a challenge. It's one of the things that makes you one.

Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.

I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.

You have to believe in it to get it...

Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.

You can't edit a blank page

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

I don't need you by my side. But I want you there. Very much want you there. That, I think, saysmore. Means more."He took the hand she held out to him. "We'll go down. James should be here soon

The wounded recognized the wounded.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out

When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don't choke on it.

Take a few minutes.""No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to."Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?

Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

Bright light. You've always found your way.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort.

I want you. I want you under me and over me and around me. And you want.

Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.

If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.(Malcolm Kavanaugh)

We all look. The lucky find. The wise accept.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.